Healthy women and children enable healthy economies, political stability and forward momentum. They are our smartest investment, when we invest wisely. The Global Financing Facility is a new era in de...

Joint Press Release: Addis Ababa, 13 July, 2015 - The United Nations Economic Commission (ECA), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the World Bank, today sig...

Mr. Secretary-General. Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I’m very happy to be here today to officially launch the Global Financing Facility in support of Every Woman Every Child. The Facility, ...

New partnership to raise resources from private capital markets to help close global financing gap for investments in maternal, adolescent and child health ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 13, 2015—The Uni...

The Millennium Development Goals—a set of eight international targets—were established in 2000 at the UN Millennium Summit. It took another two years for there to be a conference on how to actually fi...

WASHINGTON, July 10, 2015—The multilateral development banks (MDBs) and IMF today signaled plans to extend more than $400 billion in financing over the next three years and vowed to work more closely ...

Wojciech Matusiak: According to the latest World Bank study on ‘Balancing flexibility with fairness in the labor market,' fixed-term contracts - including so-called ‘junk contracts’ - have had detrime...

Mr. Secretary-General, Your Excellencies, Administrator Clark, Ladies and Gentlemen. It’s a pleasure to have the opportunity to join you today. I want to commend the Secretary-General for hosting this...

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2015— The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$70 million credit to improve access to safe drinking water and sanitation services in urban and peri-areas i...

Preparing to leave Nigeria has been one of the most difficult experiences of my life. Even before leaving, I am already feeling nostalgic about this amazing, classic African country - at the crossroad...

Kazakhstan Trade Report - June 1, 2015 For Kazakhstan to take advantage of global integration and diversification opportunities, the government should consider improving the national trade policy fram...